Qualify for Special Education

Categories of Disabilities that Qualify for Special Education

• specific learning disabilities
• speech or language impairments
• mental retardation
• emotional disturbance
• multiple disabilities
• hearing impairments
• orthopedic impairments
• other health impairments
• visual impairments
• autism
• deaf-blindness
• traumatic brain injury
• ADHD- These students recive services under "other health impaiments" or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

taken from:
Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th Edition, Cecil D. Mercer; Ann R. Mercer; Paige C. Pullen (2011)